Asaad (transliteration: Asʿad, Arabic: أسعد) (not to be confused with Asad) is an Arabic name for boys that means “happier”, “happiest”, “more fortunate”, “most fortunate”, the word implies both joy and luck.12 It is the comparative and superlative form of Saʿīd. The word Asaad also refers to a disease like mange that debilitates camels.34 It is unclear whether the name was used in ancient Arabia with the meaning of “happy/lucky” or with reference to this disease (names with negative meanings were common among the ancient Arabians due to the belief that such names warded off the harms of envy). Asaad is also the name of an Arabian tribe5 which belongs to the larger tribe of Nahd, which belongs to Quḍāʿah.

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